How to start with PPA?

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=52915118275 > I wrote a note about it on Facebook.

Yes, you can distribute the pre-compiled packages of the Kernel build, however, depending on the size of the build, the PPA might not have enough space.

If you enabled some of the logging features for Linux, the resulting .deb (image and headers) will be around ~200MB, and that's more than you can upload.

PPA is basically a Anonymous FTP. First you have to install dput, which is the tool that will upload files.

sudo apt-get install dput

After installing make sure you configure it. For Launchpad it would be:

vim ~/.dput.cf (to open the configuration file)

Then add:

[ppa]
fqdn = ppa.launchpad.net
method = ftp
incoming = ~gouki/ubuntu/
login = anonymous
allow_unsigned_uploads = 0

Don't forget to replace 'gouki' with your LP username.

Then you can use the following: dput ppa linux-build.changes

The 'ppa' part on the command tells dput where to upload files. Also, the linux-build.changes is only an example. You need to use your own .changes file, which might not be created, depending on how you built your .deb files.

For more information check the following URL: https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA

Size wont be a problem I think.. PPA repository limit is 1GB...

Great! Thank you for the reply, I will try to upload and let you know how it went :)